Cheek to grown-ups and saying sorry, sentence 23
Saying sorry quickly, and explaining you were upset, usually makes forgiveness easier.
Who acts: you, Saying · What happens: say, explain, be, make · To what, where: forgiveness · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of the lesson «Cheek to grown-ups and saying sorry» of the everyday course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Saying), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Saying | say | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 makes | csubj |
| 2 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Saying | ccomp |
| 3 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 1 Saying | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 explaining | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 explaining | cc |
| 6 | explaining | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 1 Saying | conj |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 upset | nsubj |
| 8 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 upset | cop |
| 9 | upset | upset | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 explaining | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 makes | punct |
| 11 | usually | usually | ADV | _ | 12 makes | advmod |
| 12 | makes | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | forgiveness | forgiveness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 makes | obj |
| 14 | easier | easy | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 12 makes | xcomp |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 makes | punct |
Pragmatics
- form
- statement
- act
- assert
- voice
- narrator
- polarity
- pos
- teacher
- changed act=assert, polarity=pos
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | quickly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | explain speech: assert | gerund | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | is | past | you | upset property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | make | present | Saying | forgiveness | easy, usually property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset forgiveness=Product |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0, as the whole of Mova corpus 0.4, of which this treebank (the agreed school, mova-school-agreed-en.conllu) is part. The lessons were written for Mova's primary school. Sentence school:everyday:355-the-coach-the-lollipop-lady-slammed-doors-and-sorry.lesson:23.
The tree: Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): R5-strong ×1. The frames are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (prag) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.
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